The knight of the long knives

Varun Gandhi holds aloft a sword while campaigning for BJP candidate Vijay Goel in the Delhi Sadar parliamentary constituency

Meanwhile... his cousins may take up more television and newspaper space but Maneka Gandhi's son shows he has got the right genes all right. Cocking a snook at his aunt and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the BJP's youngest campaigner has declared his support for a legislation to bar persons of foreign origin from holding high public offices. But he was also quick to soothe, adding, 'Family has its own place while politics has its own place.' Is that a double-edged sword the lad's wielding?

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